"It's awesome, going into the Mark Twain Cave area--nice and flat,shaded, and then back out into the sun--it was great. We look forward to "the hill", that's why we come down...love the hills; we look forward to it every year, and we get better every year."

The Cannibal gets its name from a grueling hill on the course that can “eat you up”…Tom Redington of Hannibal also ran the 15K and comments on running up Lover’s Leap Lane…

"It's still a big hill; I've run it almost every year... I've done the 10k, 5k lots of times--Lover's Leap is still Lover's Leap."

A Fun Run was held at 9 a.m. for children 10 and under.

Proceeds from the Hannibal Cannibal benefit the Hannibal Regional Hospital’s Healthy Way Campaign, which is raising funds to build a community fitness trail on the medical campus.